Example sentences of "sell [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 2 | Several American management consultants , notably Dr W Edwards Deming , Dr JM Juran and Philip B Crosby , developed the concepts ; the first two of these , unable to sell them to American companies , turned instead to Japan . |
| 3 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 4 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 5 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 6 | You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen . |
| 7 | There is nothing inherently improbable about the same company producing both and selling them to opposite sides in a war . |
| 8 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 9 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 10 | You should bottle that particular speech and sell it to clean-air groups . ’ |
| 11 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 12 | The syndicate leader seeks out loan business , structures a suitable loan proposal , sells it to other banks and ensures the loan is serviced according to its contract terms . |